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  Scene the First  
Scene the First Blazing Visions
"Ruins of the Business Centre looking southwest from the site of Old Fort Dearborn.   Explosion of Giant Powder and fall of buildings in the foreground."


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The Great Chicago Fire and the Web of Memory
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